allocate

1. To spread systematically a single monetary amount over a number of time periods, usually years. For example, depreciation allocates the cost of a capital asset over its useful life.

2. To distribute cost or revenue throughout a number of operations or products. For example, a business must decide how to allocate the costs of running its headquarters over all its operations to determine the profitability of each of those operations.

spilling versus splitting: Since both spilling and splitting live ranges reduce register pressure, how does the register allocator make a trade-off between these techniques, and how does it select the live ranges to operate on?

The difference between the amount that each subject kept when she was an allocator minus the amount each received as the receiver measures each individual's net premium over the strictly 'fair,' 50/50 split and may be provocatively called 'greed.

Compare the Ultimatum Game where the recipient may reject the sum allocated to her in which case both, the allocator and the recipient, do not get anything, for exampel, Guth, Schmittberger, and Schwarze, 1982.

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